How to load Franka

It's about time to leave for some holidays. Starting from next weekend I'll be splashing myself somewhere on an Island, leaving behind my shoulders this hot and humid town for a fortnight.Once back a new old lady should be waiting for me in my office. Her name is Franka and my 591pal, Paolo, has just prepared a video to show how it must be loaded and unloaded with a 120 film roll.

Franka is touring around the world. Next month will be in Milan. You can follow her travel on her dedicated pages.

Crossing the river

Travelling Riverside Blues

Travelling Riverside Blues

Who cares about rain!

Ruhollah Mahmoudi

I just posted on 591 a stunning series from a young talented Iranian photographer: Ruhollah Mahmoudi. I believe it's worth a careful look, as well as a walk through his professional and generous website. I'm very happy to have contributed this series (and a new one about to be published) to be shown to a wider audience. In these vivid and living images I find the same appeal and sense of presence I use to find on those series published by world famous reportage magazines.


Click on the picture below to get access to the series.

Photograph, (C) Ruhollah Mahmoudi

Flower Power

Time to blow the dust off.

591 Photography has just waged a new campaign called "Flower Power", collecting any kind of picture about flowers.The contribution we are receiving are worth of an exhibition that I hope we'll be able to set up and put on display. Anyone can give his/her contribution. Submissions will be accepted all along the incoming Summer. You can dive through the currently received picture by clicking exactly HERE!

This happening gave me the chance to remove the dust off some good pictures I took years ago in the meadow standing in front of my office building.

Save Villa Adriana

"We appeal to Prefect Giuseppe Pecoraro, the Extraordinary Commissioner for Refuse of the Regione Lazio, to reverse the decision to install a landfill for refuse at Corcolle-Villa Adriana-San Vittorino. This is an area of immense cultural and natural value not only for Italy but for all of humanity.To speak only of the most obvious site that requires our watchful and eternal protection, we note that Hadrian's Villa is only a short distance from the proposed landfill. This unique UNESCO World Heritage Site is visited each year by hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world. It is unconscionable that it or its immediate surroundings should suffer degradation of the kind that the proposed landfill clearly represents.

Local authorities have already made known their willingness to find an alternative solution. The Province of Rome has announced its firm opposition. The Ministry of Cultural Property and Activities has also properly expressed its concern.

We, the undersigned archaeologists, scholars, scientists, and members of the general public from all over the world now join with an increasingly large number of Italian citizens to raise our voices in protest of the project to create a landfill at Corcolle-Villa Adriana-San Vittorino. We hope that it is not too late for reason and a decent respect for the past to prevail.

We also appeal to Corrado Clini, Italian Minister of the Environment, to announce immediately that the proposed project for a landfill at Corcolle has been once and for all abandoned; and that Hadrian's Villa will be respected and protected."

Save Villa Adriana. Sign the petition.

Thank you.

 

Antinoo

Antinoo, il fascino della bellezza

on display in Villa Adriana, Tivoli, till November 4.

Labour Day

May 1,

time for marching, gathering in public places, singing out loud, sitting on grass and spending some time with the family. I'm in Tivoli these days. Beside reflecting around the late changes of the modern world of labour and the way the current economic crisis is hitting the foundation of the labourers rights, I gladly see there still someone who's hopefully willing to make plans for the future and get engaged with a marriage.

Just married, going to Rome